What are you looking at? ‘Pepsi Ice Cucumber’, a Japan-only flavor. Believe it or not, Japanese are not so different from Americans. This turns them off as much as it does you probably. No one in my class could actually believe I bought a bottle of it, and I got a lot of attention for it. Why did I buy it? I thought it would taste good. Japan has things like ‘melon soda’, which is actually cream soda- nothing to do with melons at all. And other things that are not what they sound. So, heck, why not try the ‘cucumber’ pop?

Well, turns out Japan didn’t lie about the vegetable it contains. It really does have a sickeningly sweet taste, complete with a cucumber-ish bit. Absolutely disgusting. Everyone in my class had to smell it, and I think that right there ruined Pepsi’s chances of ANYONE in my class buying it. It smells disgusting too. And the picture doesn’t show it that clearly, but the stuff in the same could be Listerine if you put it in a different bottle. Absolute same color.

Some of my friends tried it too. So I drank some, later Ryuta did. The Tsutomu wanted to try. And after school the foreign teacher tried some (Ben), and the Chahiro and Junko wanted some, and then the Canadian (Bob) tried some. So the bottle ended up with a 7 person count. I did not drink the majority of it. Then I just dumped the remaining 1/6 because I was kind of like ‘too many people’… I’m a compulsive hand washer, and germs aren’t my thing. Actually right now my hands are really dried out because I’ve washed them too much.

Anyways, new experience in Japan. Yay. Because you’d never find something like this in America, you just wouldn’t. And that’s exactly why I bought it.

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Oh, and I probably got around 45% on JTest. Not as bad as I imagined, but not good at all. The listening part (which I was hoping would be easier) was so fast, and the segment and answers were only read once. Thanks. At least my Spanish teachers would go over things multiple times so we could get it. The writing was a bit easier though, so I guess it balanced out. And a lot of intelligent guesses.

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And I lost in Badminton today, which was sad. But it was against a really good pair, the gym teacher and some kid who obviously knew how to play. So yeah. I’m partners with Tsutomu if I hadn’t mentioned it. We’ll win next time. I love badminton so much, and gym is my favorite class now. Art has fallen from grace, because we’re doing oil canvas again…and I have no inspiration nor artistic talent. My mind doesn’t work for art.